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Like everything else that you've been told about the Wuhan virus more bullshit, this time from the 6-foot nonsense.
The risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors is the same when socially distanced 6 feet apart and 60 feet apart, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America earlier this month, argues that there isn’t much benefit to distancing 6 feet apart. Ideas about coronavirus transmission have changed since the beginning of the pandemic. At the start of the global outbreak, scientists and medical professional believed that hand-washing after touching surfaces was the leading cause of transmission. Experts now say the virus is transmitted through droplets released when people talk, sneeze and cough.
Professor Martin Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, told CNBC that the rule “really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.”
Bazant and MIT applied mathematics professor John Bush created a model to calculate exposure risk to COVID-19 in an indoor setting based on the amount of time indoors, air filtration, immunizations, variants and respiratory activity like breathing.
They say the most important factor is the amount of time spent indoors rather than how far apart people stand from one another.
“What our analysis continues to show is that many spaces that have been shut down in fact don’t need to be,” Bazant told CNBC.
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The risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors is the same when socially distanced 6 feet apart and 60 feet apart, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America earlier this month, argues that there isn’t much benefit to distancing 6 feet apart. Ideas about coronavirus transmission have changed since the beginning of the pandemic. At the start of the global outbreak, scientists and medical professional believed that hand-washing after touching surfaces was the leading cause of transmission. Experts now say the virus is transmitted through droplets released when people talk, sneeze and cough.
Professor Martin Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, told CNBC that the rule “really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.”
Bazant and MIT applied mathematics professor John Bush created a model to calculate exposure risk to COVID-19 in an indoor setting based on the amount of time indoors, air filtration, immunizations, variants and respiratory activity like breathing.
They say the most important factor is the amount of time spent indoors rather than how far apart people stand from one another.
“What our analysis continues to show is that many spaces that have been shut down in fact don’t need to be,” Bazant told CNBC.
MIT researchers: Risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors the same at 6ft and 60ft
The risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors is the same when socially distanced 6 feet apart and 60 feet apart, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say.The study, …
thehill.com
